Folding table



.(ModeL) W. Q-UIGLEY.

FOLDING TABLE.

Patented Ma.1-.25,- 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM WINTER summer, or SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA.

FOLDING TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,673, dated March 25, 1884.

Application filed September 12, 1883. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that 1, WILLIAM W. QUIGLEY, of Santa Ana, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Skirt-Board, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

' The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved skirt-board for receiving and supporting a skirt, while the same is be- IO ing sewed, in such a manner that all parts of drawings, forming the skirt can be reached very easily by the seamstress. I

The invention consists in a skirt-board provided with a recess in one edge, and having supports at that edge only, so that a skirt can easily be passed on the board from the opposite edge.

The invention also dbnsists in hinging two boards together and providing one of them with pivoted supports, substantially as herein shown and described.

Reference is to'be had to the accompanying. part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figurel is a perspective View of my improved skirt-board, and Fig. 2 is'an inverted sectional plan view of the same.

A narrow board, A, is provided in one longitudinal edge with a recess, B, of sufficient length to partly receive the body of a seamstress, and to the opposite edge a wide plate or board, 0, is hinged, which is provided on its under surface and at the free edge with undercut flanged blocks D, or other suitable sockets. One or two standards, E, are secured to a base-rail, F, at one end of the same, and are secured to the corresponding end of a top rail, G. The opposite supports, E F, are hinged by hinges a to brackets H, fastened'to the bottom of the board A, so that the standards E and the top rail, G, can be swung under the boardA. The free ends of the top rails, G, are recessed or cut out to fit under the blocks D sufficiently tight to resist any I tendency to be withdrawn therefrom while the table is in use. The skirt-board is supported at one longitudinal edge only, so that a skirt, 850., can be passed over the board 0 from the other edge, and can be shifted and moved about by the seamstress without requiring her to rise or shift ormove the skirt-board. The base-rails F are provided with casters I), thus enabling the seamstress to push the skirt-board away in case she wishes to rise. WVhen the skirt-board is not in use, the top rails, G, are swung under the board A, as shown in Fig. 2 in dotted lines, and the board 0 then hangs down against the standards. The skirt-board can thus be folded very compactly and laid away for future use. If the board is to be erected for use, the board 0 is raised and the top rails, G, are swung under it, the ends of the said rails passing into the recessed blocks or sockets D.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The board'A, having the board 0 hinged thereto, and provided also with the fixed brackets H on its under side, in combination with the standards E, hinged to the brackets H, and provided with the top rails, G, and feet F, parallel to each other and extending to or near the outer edge of the board 0, when said board is in its raised position, substantially as 'set forth.

2. In a the board A, of the board 0, hinged to the same and provided with recessed blocks or sockets D, the top rails, G, and of the standards E, hinged to brackets H, fixed to the board A, and having the feet F extending forward as skirtboard, the combination, with I far as the outer edge of said board A, substan- 'tially as herein shown and described.

' WILLIAM WINTER QUIGLEY.

Witnesses:

CLARENCE SHERWOOD, NEsToR A. YOUNG. 

